To surgically remove human fingertips is to deny an essence of humanity bestowed upon you by our Creator. Never again will you feel the velvet of your baby’s cheek never again will you savor those last, salty crumbs at the bottom of the pretzel bowl pressed onto your fingertip and touched to your tongue never again will your fingertips text your friends never again will the fingertips of the Deaf perform the joyous choreography of ASL never again will the fingertips of the Blind illuminate their minds and souls as they decode the bumps of Braille. A vital essence of your humanity has been marauded.
Imagine your life without the pads of your fingertips: they have been surgically removed at the first knuckle. And just as your fingertips relay sensory information to your brain about your world, our cat-claws & toe-pads relay sensory information to our brains about our world! How’s that for a bit of kitty whimsy? Ah, well, having cat-thumbs may be a fluffy dream, but here is one vital feline fact: the claw-end toe-tips of our forepaws are just as laden with nerve endings and sensitive tissue as your human fingertips. T’would be One Giant Leap for All Cat-kind!
With cat-thumbs we could lace our sneakers,ĭear Creator, if thumbs for cats we pray Thee find, Hey, silly primates, “HISS-S-S-S on you!” Thumbs are wasted on the likes of chimpanzees, Those dexterous digits: Thumbs one-and-twoĪh-h, if Cats had thumbs, what formidable creatures we’d be! With the greatest gifts derived from man – It’s quite the opposite – cats would ameliorate However, we must debate that crossed with man, That man would improve crossed with Felis Catu –Ī Man-Cat could be. Then, fluffing down at my iMac, I composed “If Cats Had Thumbs – A Feline Responds to Mark Twain.” And all the while I was writing, I imagined myself riding on his shoulder, or sitting on his lap, and mewing to him, this kitty-wise reply: Twain’s observation for some time and awaited for the poetic mews to kick in. *Ailurophile: from the Greek: ailouros = cat, -phile = lover. Twain feature him enjoying the companionship of “a Clemens cat or two.” His keen wit and wry observations on life, society, and cats, were truly inspired but in my opinion, you’ve just read his most astute declaration. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.”ĭear Friend, Did you know that just like you, Mark Twain was a devoted *ailurophile? Purr-ific! Many photo-ops of Mr. “Of all God’s creatures, there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. Breeders often advertise these felines as “mitten kittens,” “cats with thumbs,” or “big-foot cats.” Although related health conditions are minimal, breeding polydactyly in cats simply for the gratification of human ownership is highly discouraged.Today’s Purrsday Poetry post comes from Deborah Ann Greenfield who runs Catkind. In fact, many breeders intentionally breed cats containing this genetic abnormality to meet high demand of what pet owners consider a cute physical characteristic. The increased number of toes is an inherited, genetic mutation that is not uncommon. Felines are born with fives toes on each front paw and four toes on each back paw, but polydactyl cats have several. Polydactyly in cats is a condition in which a feline possess more toes than the average cat. It is for this reason that polydactyl cats are found in higher populations around sea ports. Sailors believed the extra toes of the polydactyl cats made them better at catching mice than the average cat, therefore, many of the mutated cats came to live in different parts of the world by boat. Boston, Massachusetts holds the largest population of polydactyl cats, believed to be descendents of the feline brought to the US by English Puritans. Polydactyl cats can be found throughout several parts of the world including Asia, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, Great Britain and the United States.
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